Fast Company is a 1979 film

Film

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 by Canadian director

Film director

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 David Cronenberg

David Cronenberg

David Paul Cronenberg, OC, FRSC is a Canadian filmmaker, screenwriter and actor. He is one of the principal originators of what is commonly known as the body horror or venereal horror genre. This style of filmmaking explores people's fears of bodily transformation and infection. In his films, the...

. It was written

Screenplay

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 by Phil Savath, Courtney Smith, Alan Treen and Cronenberg, and stars William Smith

William Smith (actor)

William Smith is an American actor who has appeared in almost 300 feature films and television productions.Smith began his acting career at the age of 8 in 1942...

, John Saxon

John Saxon (actor)

John Saxon is an American actor who has worked on over 200 projects during the span of sixty years. Saxon is most known for his work in horror films such as A Nightmare on Elm Street and Black Christmas, both of which feature Saxon as a policeman in search of the killer...

, Claudia Jennings

Claudia Jennings

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 and Nicholas Campbell

Nicholas Campbell

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. The film was primarily filmed at Edmonton International Speedway

Edmonton International Speedway

Edmonton International Speedway, also known as Speedway Park, was a multi-track auto racing facility located in the present Cumberland and Hudson neighborhoods of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The facility featured a ¼ mile drag strip, a 14-turn road course, and a ¼ mile short oval...

, in addition to other locations in Edmonton, Alberta and western Canada.

Fast Company is the story of a dragster

Dragster

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 racing driver (Smith) and his villainous manager (Saxon). The first of his features for which Cronenberg did not originate the screenplay, Fast Company brought Cronenberg into contact with cinematographer

Cinematographer

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 Mark Irwin, art director

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 Carol Spier, sound editor Bryan Day, and film editor Ronald Sanders, all of whom became regular crew members on his films. Actor Nicholas Campbell, who plays William Smith's young sidekick, also went on to appear in three more Cronenberg films, The Brood

The Brood

The Brood is a 1979 Canadian horror film written and directed by David Cronenberg, starring Oliver Reed, Samantha Eggar and Art Hindle.The film depicts a series of murders committed by what seems at first to be a group of children...

, The Dead Zone

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and Naked Lunch

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Naked Lunch is the 1991 Canadian/British/Japanese film adaptation, directed by David Cronenberg, of William S. Burroughs' novel of the same name...

.

Although Fast Company - an all-action, non-horror, non-psychological B-movie

B-movie

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- remains an anomaly in Cronenberg's filmography, it has never lost its place in the affections of its director, who is an enthusiast of cars and their machinery ("which I get very metaphysical and boring about") and sometime racer.